Oh, you picked up on the name thing;)? Well, I happen to agree that a Linux box with the kernel optimized for routing (or, even better, an xBSD) can do a nice job as a router. I just get paid assloads of money to support equipment that costs the customer even bigger-ass loads of money. The saving grace is that the IOS is a lot more fun to work on and a lot more powerful than any POS I've seen from 3COM, Nortel, or Lucent.
Since when does 3COM make a good router? Or even a decent router? FYI, CoreBuilder Layer-3 switches don't count...
Re:Hey, would FreeBSD make a good DSL web server?
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BSD makes a better server than Linux PERIOD. Note I said SERVER. I am personally running OpenBSD as my firewall/router and have seen a few attempts to exploit it, but the box has never been compromised. FreeBSD is also a good choice; you just have to make sure that you close up some default security holes.
The technology for auto-updaters is there and the source is available, so it's not like there aren't a million examples to refer to when implementing your own.
You wouldn't happen to be referring to AUTOSLACK, Mr. Cantrell, now would you?
And do you actually see our friends at OSDN suddenly changing their policy? "Oh, you want Linux, do you? Well, you'll have to rent a license for it..." The day that happens is the day I switch to BSD for good.
In keeping with the grammatical correctness of the previous anal retentive poster, this should technically be:
Somebody set up Napster the bomb.
Or, wait, isn't anal retentive hyphenated?
No, missed the point entirely. All I was saying is that there might in fact be some type something out there that exists on/is composed of "foobarium" (which, incidentally, might not even be analogous to any element known to humankind). This something likely considers itself alive, and may wonder how the hell we can exist on "carbon." Know what I'm saying?
I think the point that we're missing here is that carbon and oxygen are the key ingredients for life as we know it. Now, it's way too early and I'm way to sober to wax philisophical, but isn't it arrogant to say that all life depends on carbon? How do we know that some other race/species/whatever out there is looking at Earth saying "hmm, no huge deposits of foobarium there, there must not be any life?"
Yeah, but that's why it was such a great ending. Everyone sees Clarice as the brave young girl that somehow makes right against all odds, just like Laurie Strode in Halloween or Sidney Prescott in Scream. But Lecter is so evil that he can manipulate this strong woman into something that she's not, just to suit his purposes (i.e., replacing his sister).
When I first read the novel, I knew that the ending would never fly with the general public, because they didn't want to see their heroine defiled. But the novel is about Hannibal (hence the name), not Clarice Starling, and I personally found his charcter gruesome and captivating. I haven't seen the movie, but I hope that Harris' Lecter is done as well as in the book.
Umm, isn't c == 3.0E8 m/s == 3.0E6 km/s? That would make this 8000km / 3000000 (km/s) (it's distance / velocity) = 2.6666 ms; much faster than the fastest hard drive.
You know, right now, you're old than you've ever been...
...and now you're even older...
...and now you're even older...
...and now you're older still.
But seriously, I was a Network Engineer on a site when the PM was fired. Being the only other full employee of my company (the rest were subcontractors), I got the nod for interim PM. Bear in mind, I was 23 at the time. I will say that I had no problem telling helldesk people twice my age that they should get moving and close some calls. And they had no problem listening. It all comes down to respect. If you act like a punk-ass 23-year-old arrogant bitch, your co-workers will treat you as such. If you earn their respect by doing your job well, they are much more likely to respond to you in turn.
Re:I expect it will make no difference at all.
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whoh, completely not true. There are some protocols (like TCP/IP) that use the wire much more efficiently than others (read IPX, AppleSQUAWK). And, some route more efficiently than others. To get even more granular, the routING protocols used on the Internet could make an even bigger difference than the bandwidth, because a bad choice made by BGP or whatever could take your OC192 pipe and direct it to a quake server via some 56k line in Buttfuck, Iowa. In short, protocols make a difference.
A followup question: If the IP stack is implemented in hardware, why wouldn't any OS installed on a machine with this "hardware" be just as fast? IIRC, Layer 1 of the OSI model is the only one that deals w/ hardware specs. Layers 3/4 are implemented in software.
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You wouldn't happen to be referring to AUTOSLACK, Mr. Cantrell, now would you?
I'm thinking you meant to say "...like any cheese with that whine?"
Ab-so-freakin-lutely, brother.
And do you actually see our friends at OSDN suddenly changing their policy? "Oh, you want Linux, do you? Well, you'll have to rent a license for it..." The day that happens is the day I switch to BSD for good.
In keeping with the grammatical correctness of the previous anal retentive poster, this should technically be: Somebody set up Napster the bomb. Or, wait, isn't anal retentive hyphenated?
Bit of a stretch on the paraphrase there, but not too bad...
No shit. Also, didn't they do this in the movie Crackers, ermm, Hackers?
Q: What did the history grad say to the CS/CE grad? A: YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT? hyuk hyuk
That's: What you say !! dumbass
No, missed the point entirely. All I was saying is that there might in fact be some type something out there that exists on/is composed of "foobarium" (which, incidentally, might not even be analogous to any element known to humankind). This something likely considers itself alive, and may wonder how the hell we can exist on "carbon." Know what I'm saying?
Yeah, we were all levitating little Buddhas by the time junior high rolled around...
I think the point that we're missing here is that carbon and oxygen are the key ingredients for life as we know it. Now, it's way too early and I'm way to sober to wax philisophical, but isn't it arrogant to say that all life depends on carbon? How do we know that some other race/species/whatever out there is looking at Earth saying "hmm, no huge deposits of foobarium there, there must not be any life?"
Yeah, but that's why it was such a great ending. Everyone sees Clarice as the brave young girl that somehow makes right against all odds, just like Laurie Strode in Halloween or Sidney Prescott in Scream. But Lecter is so evil that he can manipulate this strong woman into something that she's not, just to suit his purposes (i.e., replacing his sister). When I first read the novel, I knew that the ending would never fly with the general public, because they didn't want to see their heroine defiled. But the novel is about Hannibal (hence the name), not Clarice Starling, and I personally found his charcter gruesome and captivating. I haven't seen the movie, but I hope that Harris' Lecter is done as well as in the book.
Umm, isn't c == 3.0E8 m/s == 3.0E6 km/s? That would make this 8000km / 3000000 (km/s) (it's distance / velocity) = 2.6666 ms; much faster than the fastest hard drive.
You know, right now, you're old than you've ever been... ...and now you're even older... ...and now you're even older... ...and now you're older still.
But seriously, I was a Network Engineer on a site when the PM was fired. Being the only other full employee of my company (the rest were subcontractors), I got the nod for interim PM. Bear in mind, I was 23 at the time. I will say that I had no problem telling helldesk people twice my age that they should get moving and close some calls. And they had no problem listening. It all comes down to respect. If you act like a punk-ass 23-year-old arrogant bitch, your co-workers will treat you as such. If you earn their respect by doing your job well, they are much more likely to respond to you in turn.
whoh, completely not true. There are some protocols (like TCP/IP) that use the wire much more efficiently than others (read IPX, AppleSQUAWK). And, some route more efficiently than others. To get even more granular, the routING protocols used on the Internet could make an even bigger difference than the bandwidth, because a bad choice made by BGP or whatever could take your OC192 pipe and direct it to a quake server via some 56k line in Buttfuck, Iowa. In short, protocols make a difference.
A followup question: If the IP stack is implemented in hardware, why wouldn't any OS installed on a machine with this "hardware" be just as fast? IIRC, Layer 1 of the OSI model is the only one that deals w/ hardware specs. Layers 3/4 are implemented in software.